Chapter Five
Sophia waited, her hands resting in her lap and her legs crossed.
Her elaborate scarlet and black asymmetric one-shoulder draped gown highlighted her curves with scientific precision and revealed enough of her skin to be appealing without being coarse.
No matter what many claimed, one’s physical appearance carried power, and she intended to make full use of that truth. She’d learned just how great a weapon beauty could be over the decades.
It didn’t matter if anything about her had ceased to be natural decades ago. The obsession with purity was the greatest lie that the foolish dregs making up most of humanity had let themselves accept.
The divine gave mankind knowledge, and she saw no problem with taking that knowledge and applying it to transcend the so-called natural o
